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More procrastination inspired thoughts

When I laugh, an inside laugh with maybe an exterior smile, at something because it is just sooo douchey like the murdered out trying to be sports-car with an intentionally low-performing muffler driven by a guy missing shirtsleeves of any kind at first I am myself being a judgmental douche but then the laughter, as opposed to anger or real disdain or serious geo-political criticism of this guys particular brand of gas-guzzling noise-polluting fashion doucheness, makes me reflect on my own judgment, and if I’m going to be consistent then I have to laugh at myself and then I come to some conclusion like “good for him, do what makes you feel good” and then I feel better. Whereas the more serious judgment just makes me feel worse about humanity in general and then nervous about my own engagement in douchey type activity including the judgment itself but not limited to the judgment also of to the going to certain bars wearing shirts with expensive brands on them and the drinking of coffee in particular shops because they are trendy or whatever else, which ends up being this whole really harsh self-inventory taking. And I think this really reveals a more helpful contrapositive of that (Buddhist-capitalist) cliche: “you have to treat yourself generously in order to treat others generously”, which is: “if you don’t treat others generously then you wont treat yourself generously”, and also just laughter is good.

coffee shop thoughts (procrastination of writing by writing)

sometimes in places where the people are mostly working alone like on their computers at their own personal table with headphones in like this particular and probably in other coffee shops where there’s this huge window out to an interesting part of town or campus and a girl walks by like any girl she could be hideous but the best example is when she’s almost cute and the guys like me are all trying to avoid writing our papers so when there is just like any motion outside I just have to look out the window and when its a female-type motion and particularly a not too fast cycling-female-type motion the look lingers a bit because you know we have to check her out and you already looked up shouldn’t waste that motion and if shes got some borderline cuteness you gotta look at little longer just to know it’s not like a romantic or anything type interest at all its just any excuse for a distraction from writing or studying or whatever then when she is pretty you try to look but not look which never fools anybody except maybe yourself if you happen to be or are intentionally not very bright which happens to be a pretty successful technique for meeting beautiful women and when like a few guys like synchronize in this motion other people in said coffee shop with the big window tend to notice too and so its like this chain reaction and everybody looks because there must be something interesting maybe its the herd instinct to look for a predator or whatever but that doesn’t make it any less weird for the object of the looks and definitely embarrassing for whoever started the chain cause you’ve alerted everyone to this probably not even that cute girl and now everyone knows you aren’t studying very hard or you’ve got some non-clinical ADD going on or worse they think you’re a creep or have low standards which is really not true re the already mentioned non-dirty aspect and even with the really attractive girls its about an appreciation of style or beauty or swagger or whatever aesthetic and really what’s interesting is now the girls in said coffee shop have looked too and they aren’t going to waste that motion either so they check out the girl too in some like competitive are they hot why are these guys looking type hyper-self-aware did these guys check me out when I walked in why haven’t any of them hit on me yet but wait these guys are creeps I don’t want to get hit on thought process and then the girls outside probably notice the rivalish type behavior which makes the coffee shop seem even more like an elitist cliquey community where the girls inside are like almost jealously protecting of these guys cause lets be honest one of the hoped for payoffs of studying in a coffee shop is meeting some other cute artsy type student and there will be some romantic how i met your mom type scenario involving coffee spillage but it’s non-burning and non-staining or at most only a cute symbolic stain or awkward and not creepy in fact adorable clumsyness with one’s words or the aforementioned coffee that just doesn’t happen the same way in bars but how are you supposed to accomplish that connection that when everyone is staring out the window with my headphones in

The New Inquiry: The Art of Memoir (1) 

thenewinquiry:

Whatever I feel is felt (against my will) so that I can write that I felt it. Whatever I think is promptly put into words, mixed with images that undo it, cast into rhythms that are something else altogether. From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I. I plumbed myself and dropped the plumb; I spend my life wondering if I’m deep or not, with no remaining plumb except my gaze that shows me— blackly vivid in the mirror at the bottom of the well— my own face that observes me observing it.

(Source: thenewinquiry)

K. Moss

At a time when the female breast is both overexposed in pornography and hidden so calculating by most women, Kate Moss maintains an impossible nonchalance that both rejects and embraces the importance of that element of the female anatomy. In other words, pictures of her nipples are art.

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